I decided to hatch some eggs from my two lovely BR Marys (they share the same Tom). I put five eggs in the incubator because I wasn't sure what to expect, and after ten days, four looked good (one wasn't fertilized after all, so it got tossed).
I kept a close eye on the temp and humidity, and...
My freeloading black australorp, Steve, finally laid her first egg yesterday at 33 weeks of age! Sheesh! It is our first brown egg; our other laying hen gives us small cream colored ones. Yay!
Awww, what a sweet girl! I can just imagine trying to do this with my crazy black Australorp, Steve (girl)...she'd hate me even more after that!! Ha!
But I bet my silkie boys would love to be carried about this way <3
Love the hat! And thanks for the link to your playhouse conversion tutorial in your sig; it was really helpful. All of your kiddos are cute! Good luck with the one on the way, as well. Merry Christmas to you.
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My daughter and I ordered two SF pullet chicks from Meyer before the Derp thread appeared, and enjoyed reading it while we waited for our pickup date to arrive. Funnily enough, we also got a Derp and Coho combo! Our one SF is dark like Derp and acts, well, derpy...the other one is...
There had been a wildcat spotted locally for about a week, and it was moving northeast toward our location. Saturday morning, we heard the chickens making a fuss, but thought nothing of it (as they fuss at microbes, I swear!). In a span of five minutes, that thing took three of our chickens...
I hope that this means that they will give us some eggs soon! The roo has been mating with our 27 week old Black Australorps (they allow him to mount and don't run away squawking like they used to) for about a week now, but they still aren't laying. Is this normal? It seems like it's taking...
Looks like a girl to me...the poof on top is pretty round. Do you have other pictures, like from the back? That would allow us to see if there's streamers (a tell tale sign of roo-ness).
Hope that you have a pullet!